company’s accounting and financial reporting functions. Supervised by former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh‚ the study was commissioned by the court to investigate allegations including fraud‚ mismanagement‚ and irregularities within the company. One section of the more than 200-page report‚ "Accounting and Related Internal Controls‚" details WorldCom’s weaknesses in internal and external audit processes. It also expands on the failings within the internal audit reporting structure‚ where
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Analysis Questions on Leadership Online (A): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based in the case descriptions. How have these strategy and business model been evolved since the case was written? Ans. Barnes and Noble applied a combination of Economies of Scale and Vertical Integration and Monopoly as its Business Strategy in the 90s. They were the dominant sellers of books‚ CDs and Videos. Barnes and Noble acquired B. Dalton in 1986
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uses in Amazon.com. Amazon is one of the most emblematic of the great technology companies. They believe in low prices as they know that customers want low prices and know that it is true in this era. That is why Amazon.com has low cost strategies as operation management strategy. Moreover‚ the company is in continuous improvement through technological innovation along with the physical existence at some states of the world. In the end‚ the paper has also recommended company to take certain steps
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most customer-centric company for three primary customer sets: consumer customers‚ seller customers and developer customers.” The story of Amazon.com is a marvelous successful one. A company ́s biography which since the foundation in 19941 (followed by webpage launch one year later in 19952) became the world’s market leader in e-tailing by fully focusing on customer satisfaction and consequently aligning all organization activities‚ such as for example corporate strategy as well as technological
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important reason for losing ground during the digital age‚ actually smartphone age was due to the weak position of Nokia in the technological system or ecosystem. “Nokia failed in connection to people!!” One of the reasons for Nokia failure is on one side that Apple redefined smartphones with touch screen and Blackberry with email the other side‚ Android proved that software matters more than hardware. Nokia couldn’t success to respond to these trends. In 2008‚ brands like Samsung‚ HTC‚ and Sony found
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Why did some civilizations succeed and others fail? Why was it that some places had more resources than others? According to Jared Diamond‚ his theory‚ “Geographic Luck” is the answer. On Diamonds last trip to New Guinea‚ he proves his theory to be right. When he arrived‚ the natives ask him why the white men have so much cargo and why they had so little. The natives to the island worked just as hard if not harder than all the others but they were much less successful than the Eurasians. Geographical
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endangered species in the Amazon Rain Forest‚ spotting acts of chivalry in today’s world are a rare sight. Perhaps its scarcity is due to the emerging power of feminism‚ or maybe the deterioration of classic manners. Whatever the cause‚ the decline of chivalry has taken a toll on society and the way that it functions. The real question is‚ is chivalry dead? And what should society do about it? As a sixteen-year-old girl with a single mother and younger brother‚ there have not been a plethora of
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There has been an ongoing debate on how the Amazon Rainforest should be exploited. The Forest is a vast 1.7 billion acre tropical rainforest located in South America. It covers 60% of Northwestern Brazil. Because of many resources the Rainforest possess‚ there are different views on how the forest should be harnessed. For example‚ some believe that the forest’s trees be used for rubber tapping or be extracted from tree sap to improve Brazil’s economy. Loggers believe that they should be able to continue
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TUTORIAL-4 1. How has Amazon used technology to revamp the bookselling industry? Amazon uses technology envelop in search engine of a website. The company captures comments and recommendations of buyers for site visitors to read and also recommends which book to buy. The website captures all the information of the customer such as what pages they are looking at‚ how much time they spend on site‚ no of visitors etc. This information is used by the company to evaluate buying and selling patterns of
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Strategy and the Internet by Michael E. Porter Reprint r0103d March 2001 HBR Case Study Mommy-Track Backlash r0103a Alden M. Hayashi First Person The Job No CEO Should Delegate r0103b Larry Bossidy HBR at Large The Nut Island Effect: When Good Teams Go Wrong r0103c Paul F Levy . Strategy and the Internet r0103d Michael E. Porter Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups r0103e Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff Not All M&As Are
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